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Orion browser for macOS and iOS/iPadOS (browser.kagi.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been testing the Orion browser for macOS and iOS/iPasOS for a few days. It's WebKit-based, and Apple OS exclusive. First impressions are positive, although I haven't put it through its paces (check multi-device iCloud settings sync, push tabs to its limits, dig into exactly how it protects privacy by syncing through iCloud, etc). Would love to hear your thoughts on this, especially if anyone has tried it.

Out of the box, this browser purports to be more private than Safari, Firefox, Brave and Chrome (not exactly high bars to beat, except maybe Brave/Firefox?). The killer feature, however, is support for Chromium and Firefox extensions... on iOS/iPadOS. The two extensions I tried (AdNauseam and Youtube SponsorBlock) don't appear to work; at least their extension web pages don't appear to function. Not sure if that's intentional, or if I messed something up.

In any case, would love to see some feedback from the community here.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (6 children)

call me paranoid, but i somehow don't trust a webbrowser thats basically developed and maintained by a single person who needs you to join his discord to download it (at least that was the case in 2021).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There's a download link on the website. Discord isn't needed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well, at least that changed. A friend is currently testing kagi‘s search engine, i still think $5/month for 300 searches is a grift, but yeah ..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I'm a Kagi subscriber. I agree it's somewhat expensive, but they're also a startup and doing the insanely difficult task of taking on Google. Kagi has completely replaced Google for me in the past few months and I've really been enjoying having a search engine that's not full of ads and I can tailor to my interests.

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